Georgia · Nonprofit
THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC
THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,164,812 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($1,161,548). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What The Atlanta Womens Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the atlanta women's foundation is to be a catalyst for change in the lives of women and girls.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
AWFs ALL GIRLS FORWARD: Girls Empowerment Program empowers Atlanta's girls through education, socio-emotional development, and life skills programming. All Girls Forward supports local nonprofit organizations in providing the critical combination of services needed to ensure Atlanta's girls experiencing poverty can be on a level playing field with their peers. This combination of services includes access to the following: mental & physical health services; supplemental educational opportunities, including STEM activities; pregnancy prevention, college readiness support; mentoring; and financial literacy programming. Program objectives include empowering and educating a minimum of 5,000 girls at or below 200% of the federal poverty level; leveraging and expanding girl-focused programs in metro Atlanta with a priority on expanding services in Clayton County; creating new gender-based educational and health-related programs for girls; and developing a body of knowledge about the potential causes and solutions and making these findings available to policymaking entities. In its first year, the Program helped grantees serve over 2,300 girls impacted by poverty across Metro Atlanta.
$1,040,395 spentof which $522,000 as grants46% of program spendingBreaking Barriers, Building Women: Economic Empowerment Program: $500K. funds from Truist $200K and Coke $300K. Program focuses on higher education and asset building for low-income women in Clayton, Cobb, Dekalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett counties. Initial funding for the program allowed AWF to award a total of $1M over two years to eight local non-profit organizations. Program components include cohort multi-year funding; facilitated discussions to foster a safe environment for peer sharing; program evaluation technical assistance; individualized one-on-one consultation; workshops and trainings; and interactive convenings that allow nonprofits an opportunity to share their work and explore collaboration. Due to the ongoing situation with Covid-19, funding for year three of the program shifted to meet the developing needs of AWF grantees and their clients.
$771,296 spentof which $500,000 as grants34% of program spendingTwo-Generation Initiative: The Atlanta Womens Foundations Two-Generation Initiative is made possible through support from The Liz Blake Giving Fund. The Atlanta Womens Foundation launched this program in June of 2023. Funding supports four organizations focused on young moms ages 13-25 and their children. Most of these moms have children between 0-3 years old. Two-Generation Initiative Objectives: Developing linkages between high-quality early childhood development and workforce development services; ensuring the families have access to economic and social supports to support upward mobility while also assuring healthy child development; developing programs that help parents gain the skills, knowledge, and resources to support their childs development; provide the added support and nurturing children with developmental delays need to reach milestones, gain confidence, and succeed in school and social settings; and develop a body of knowledge about the potential causes and solutions and make these findings available to policy-making entities.
$429,296 spentof which $186,000 as grants19% of program spendingPolly Simpson: The Polly Simpson Leadership Fund was created in memory of long-time leader, volunteer, and supporter of The Atlanta Women's Foundation, Polly Simpson. Polly was an outstanding volunteer and a huge supporter of initiatives that created a pathway to success for women and girls throughout metro Atlanta. Polly's contribution to AWF during her tenure as Board Chair allowed AWF to flourish and to become the organization it is today. The Polly Simpson Leadership Fund provides free, customized "Women on Board" training to our nonprofit grantee partners. To date, all All Girls Forward grantees have received a training.
$5,513 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,246,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6.0M to $7.8M (+32%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kari B Love
CEO
Board chair
Fiona Bell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $431k → $886k.
16 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 27% · 2019 44% · 2020 27% · 2021 20% · 2022 36% · 2023 12% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
37% of THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
75% of THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC?
- THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,164,812 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($1,161,548). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $7,164,812 in grants to THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,161,548 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 85 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing